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Brief author info: Bayard Rustin (1910-1987) American civil rights leader Organizer of 1953 Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott; planner of 1963 March on Washington. Labor organizer.

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There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

Bayard Rustin

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

Bayard Rustin

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